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Hurricane Trudy gains strength near Mexico's coast, but is expected to weaken by Sunday · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: Hurricane Trudy continues to gather strength as it tracks parallel
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  Speaker 1: to the southwestern coast of Mexico, packing sustained winds of
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  Speaker 1: 90 mph as it pushes past major coastal population centers.
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  Speaker 1: Intermediate advisories issued by the National Hurricane Center place the
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  Speaker 1: center of the Category 1 cyclone approximately 140 miles south
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  Speaker 1: of Manzanillo, with the system moving northwestward at 10 mph.
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  Speaker 1: Official weather forecasts indicate that while the core of the
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  Speaker 1: hurricane will continue running parallel to the shoreline through late weekend,
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  Speaker 1: increasing upper-level atmospheric wind shear and interaction with mountainous coastal
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  Speaker 1: terrain are expected to initiate a gradual weakening trend. In
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  Speaker 1: response to the advancing storm system, Civil protection authorities in
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  Speaker 1: Mexico have declared a mandatory hurricane warning extending from the
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  Speaker 1: strategic port city of Manzanillo in Colima State northward to
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  Speaker 1: Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco State. Regional meteorologists warn that the
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  Speaker 1: hurricane's expansive outer rain bands are projected to dump between
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  Speaker 1: 4 to 8 inches of torrential rainfall, with isolated localized
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  Speaker 1: totals reaching up to 12 inches across coastal zones. Emergency
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  Speaker 1: management agencies emphasize that heavy, sustained precipitation will almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: trigger dangerous flash flooding and disruptive mudslides, particularly in vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: rural communities situated along steep volcanic mountainsides. Beyond inland flooding risks,
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  Speaker 1: coastal municipalities face severe maritime hazards as powerful ocean swells
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  Speaker 1: generated by the hurricane spread rapidly across southwestern Mexican waters.
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  Speaker 1: Federal meteorologists report that large, destructive breaking waves combined with
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  Speaker 1: localized storm surge will produce dangerous rip currents and extreme
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  Speaker 1: high surf conditions throughout the regional coastline through Sunday. Municipal
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  Speaker 1: emergency response teams and regional state authorities have urged residents
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  Speaker 1: in designated high-risk flood zones to finalize emergency preparations, secure
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  Speaker 1: personal property, and locate local emergency shelters as tropical storm
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  Speaker 1: force winds and torrential rains continue sweeping across the western seaboard.
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  Speaker 1: While atmospheric conditions are projected to degrade the hurricane back
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  Speaker 1: into a tropical storm as it moves further offshore, weather
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  Speaker 1: authorities warn that rainfall hazards will persist long after the
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  Speaker 1: primary circulation center begins to dissipate. Environmental tracking models suggest
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  Speaker 1: that moisture remnants from the tropical system could potentially interact
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  Speaker 1: with broader atmospheric pressure troughs, prolonging rain risks into early
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  Speaker 1: next week across central inland states. Federal transport authorities are
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  Speaker 1: maintaining close watch over regional highways and coastal maritime shipping lanes,
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  Speaker 1: advising all commercial vessel operators to remain in port until
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  Speaker 1: sea conditions stabilize across the eastern Pacific region.